I am a freelance writer with a focus on the Ballard neighborhood. I love connecting what is happening in the community with my own life. I was born to be at large.

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Ballard News-Tribune. July 29, 2015 Week in Review I remember warning a young parent that from the time your child starts kindergarten time speeds up. The days that seemed too long walking back from Ballard, pushing the empty stroller and balancing groceries and giraffe toy while the toddler examined every blade of grass, you’ll miss […]
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There are voices of reason, support, and valid concerns about the sites permitted for encampments for the homeless but they’re lost in the uproar. Did it really have to be this way? Ballard News-Tribune. July 13, 2015 Divided We Fall My next-door neighbors were away for three weeks. They returned to a Ballard parched by […]
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Ballard News-Tribune. June 3, 2015 A Tree Grows in Ballard We were standing next to each other waiting to unfurl a banner between us for the 17th of May Parade. After the Nordic Heritage Museum group moved into position Elaine Ike said to me, “Do you know what’s going to happen to Webster School after […]
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Ballard News-Tribune. May 27, 2015 Talk of the Town Perhaps because I stood so long next to the women of Ballard Historical Society waiting for my group’s turn in the Syttende Mai Parade I’m feeling nostalgic this week. I started writing this column, even before it was carried in the Ballard News-Tribune, on a Memorial […]
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The girl I babysat is now an accomplished woman in front of audiences big and small on her West Coast tour for Daughters of the Samurai. I am as proud as if she were my own. Then again she’s just a different daughter to me, and friend.
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It’s not just Ballard. If it hasn’t already happened that renters are priced out of your neighborhood…it will. We can talk home prices another day. Always many different points of view on a story but if we keep pulling the string on Seattle becoming affordable where does it lead? To lack of State Tax, to […]
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